Sky report now says medical treatment was for vision problems.
That would be the end of his career as a pilot if it is true.

    ' One would have thought he would have noticed a very large mountain in front of him

      Still seems to me like suicide/revenge at the world'

Don't know if you misunderstood my post, or was it an attempt at humour?
Either way you just agreed with what what I said

The only other explanation is perhaps he was unconscious

He may have locked the cockpit door as standard procedure, then put the plane into a descent to perhaps correct the altitude?.
He then passes out, we would have the same situation. Perhaps a slow leak in the cockpit or something. I do not
know if they could deduce this from black box or other telemetric data

They heard his breathing, could they tell if he was conscious or not?

Still all will revealed in time I expect, a terrible thing to happen or to do

could be

the insults were reported as calling him tomato andy assumed because cabin crew wore red outfits

Well it is extreme

The problem is things like this can get to people, if it is overdone, I remember things like this as a kid

I think the other pilots may have to live with this

Although at this stage it could be something else entirely, we cannot jump to conclusions

who knows the meaning, but it's probably part of a whole host of bits as have been mentioned, like the girlfriend, stress, medical, poss loss of career, debt, heaped on someone that might be struggling is it enough to kill 150 people?

he did not mind

ebulGery,
I've been thinking about your earlier scenario,
What if the opening and closing of cockpit door caused a sudden decompressio/compression
in the cockpit and caused a windscreen or something to blow out ,leading to a blackout.
in the seconds before complete blackout- not knowing what was going on- he locked the door
and reduced height ,but by too much as he was blacking out.
The captain couldn't gain entry using usual methods and used emergency code, so locking the door
for 5 mins .He had been to the toilet and after passing pleasantries with cabin crew most of the
8 mins would have elapsed. (It took 8 mins to descend)
I dont know if cockpit is hermetically sealed off from the cabin or not,
but if it is, then this may not be a too far-fetched scenario.
More or less what you were saying I suppose

it can't happen like that based on what's been reported, for several reasons

The screaming started at 10.35
The plane crashed at 10.40

The dramatic last moments of the doomed Germanwings flight have been revealed in a chilling transcript of the black box recording that shows the captain screaming at Andreas Lubitz “Open the goddam door”.

Patrick Sondheimer, pilot of the traffic plane, is heard frantically pleading with the killer to let him into the cockpit, just seconds before crashing into the Alps.

The recording is said to begin normally, with the captain apologising to passengers for an almost 30 minute delay in Barcelona.

He then tells them he expects the flight to make up the lost time mid-flight to Dusseldorf.

Andreas Lubitz Germanwings: Live updates on horror French Alps crash

Revealed in the German newspaper Bild, the recordings then show the tragic captain chatting with Lubitz for the next 20 minutes.

According to the paper, the killer co-pilot then tells Mr Sondheimer he can go to the toilet at any time – noting that he had not relieved himself at the airport in Barcelona.

French investigators make their way through debris from wreckage on the mountainside at the crash site of an Airbus A320

A short while later, 10.27am, the plane has reached its cruising altitude of 38,000ft and the captain tells Lubitz to prepare for the landing.

According to investigators, the co-pilot’s responses are said to be “laconic”, with the 27-year-old using phrase such as “hopefully” and “we’ll see”.

Germanwings killer Andreas Lubitz 'trawled internet for suicide and sexual perversion websites'

In one chilling exchange, Lubitz tells the pilot “You can go now” and just two minutes later, the captain is heard saying “You can take over”, before a seat is pushed back and a door opens and closes.

It is at this point that the plane begins to descend and at 10.32am air traffic controllers attempt to contact the flight without any luck.

Shortly after a ‘Sink Rate’ alarm signals followed by loud banging on the cockpit door and Sodheimer yelling: “For god’s sake, open the door.”

According to the report, passengers can now be heard screaming in the background, before, at 10.35am, “loud metallic banging against the cockpit door” is heard once more.

Profile of a killer: Andreas Lubitz is the pilot who crashed flight 4U9525. But who was he?

Just over a minute later, another alarm begins with an automated message going: “Ground. Pull up. Pull up.”

At this point the pilot can be heard screaming: “Open the goddam door.”

As the plane speeds towards the Alps, Lubitz can be heard breathing in the cockpit before the very last moment is picked up by the black box – the plane hitting the ground at 10.40am, with the chilling screams of passengers in the background.

Never know 100% of what happened, how long before airline have to offer ejecting seats for passengers in case of emergency

Ye but would be  expensive im sure and extreme quickness needed unless get the roof to go asap,not sure that works ...

I would think that fitting ejector seats and hence a roof that can be quickly got rid of is a very good idea.
I'm sure that would just hasten everyones demise at that altitude.

This follows on from one Malysian airliner flying itself to unknown destruction, after possible hypoxia of cockpit crew

another one destroyed by a missile

and now a German airliner destroyed by a suicide pilot

One could argue it is the human connection which is failing, not the planes themselves

ebul ....you missed  one that crashed into the sea .

apologies breadmbutter..was that not the Malaysian one that flew on for hours then crashed into sea after fuel ran out

or maybe I have missed one

a circuit fault

I've managed to convince myself that the chit chatters suggesting parachutes and ejector seats are only kidding. I mean, how do you survive being flung out of a 500mph jet at 40,000ft in your ordinary clothes? The deceleration of you meeting 500mph airflow would probably break your neck (somewhat like TWA800? - where everyone's neck was broken by the sudden explosion of the fuel tank and the resulting deceleration).

And you can bet, if there was the opportunity to eject, it couldn't be in the hands of the idiot passengers, no one would ever arrive anywhere they were supposed to, one little bit of turbulence and we'd all be floating down in the darkness. And individual ejection is obviously out. So if there was a button to eject everyone, it'd be in the Captain's flight panel and that's up there, behind the locked door with the suicidal co pilot.